[The Lizard of Oz]

(10-23-2015 06:35 PM)teh_skeeze Wrote:  

@Lizard

In terms of wind speed, this is the strongest hurricane ever recorded. In terms of pressure it was off by about 10mb. The storm just made landfall with wind speeds of 165mph. Fortunately, the eye started going through the regeneration process just before landfall, weakening it significantly.

Worst ever is subjective. Usually they measure it in terms of dollars in damage or loss of human life, but that is dependent on where the storm hits.

Yeah I know that's what they're saying, but I'm not buying it. If you look carefully at the Haiyan images I posted, they were saying at the time that it was generating 200 mph winds (they like that number). The actual measured wind speeds were in fact much lower (147-171 mph per the other table I posted).

It may seem like wind speeds are what they are and you can't just lie about them, but you'd be surprised. These people are getting very desperate and they're hungry for something big. They had high hopes for Joaquin and were disgusted when it missed the US -- you could feel the terrible letdown on alarmist blogs and boards, they were gearing up for it and licking their lips.

Now these ghouls are hoping for a lot of damage in Mexico -- they realize no one is going to care as much about Mexicans dying as about Americans, but they'll take what they can get and hype it as much as possible.

By the way a very similar storm hit Mexico in 1959 and the damage was pretty bad but you won't hear much about it: